Daucus carota
Daucus carota
Yabani havuç
Biennial, stems usually branched, 10-200 cm, setose, hispid or almost glabrous. Leaves 2-3-pinnate, the segments very variably dentate, pinnatifid or pinnatisect, hairy or glabrous, rarely fleshy. Rays 10-numerous, often inflexed in fruit. Bracts 1-2-pinnatisect, often deflexed in flower and fruit. Petals white, pinkish or yellowish. Central flowers of the umbel sometimes sterile and reduced. Fruit 2-4 mm; spines on the secondary ridges not confluent at the base, shorter than the width of the mericarp. Fl. 6-9. Meadows, slopes, sand dunes, fields, etc., s.l.-2000 m.
Cultivated and naturalized throughout most of the world.
